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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5300053" data-attributes="member: 463">We use rocks and sticks because we're very weak for our size, so we need the help - we have a hard time killing other humans, or the larger mammals, without such aids.&nbsp; Chimps will use rocks and sticks in combat, but they're much stronger for their size and don't get the same force multiplier effect we do.&quot;Man the Supreme Killer&quot; seems as off-base to me as &quot;Man the Non-Violent (except for the Authoritarian Personalities)&quot;. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Animals are violent.&nbsp; Primates certainly are violent.&nbsp; Humans fall towards the less-violent end of the primate violence spectrum.The human capacity for organised mass warfare is unusual, it's only found among a few species with a much greater capacity than normal for cooperation (eg ants), and is strongly inversely related to the tendency towards intra-group violence.&nbsp;&nbsp; Among humans it seems to have started with the first agricultural populations, and to be connected to an increased ability to live together in close proximity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5300053, member: 463"] We use rocks and sticks because we're very weak for our size, so we need the help - we have a hard time killing other humans, or the larger mammals, without such aids. Chimps will use rocks and sticks in combat, but they're much stronger for their size and don't get the same force multiplier effect we do. "Man the Supreme Killer" seems as off-base to me as "Man the Non-Violent (except for the Authoritarian Personalities)". :) Animals are violent. Primates certainly are violent. Humans fall towards the less-violent end of the primate violence spectrum. The human capacity for organised mass warfare is unusual, it's only found among a few species with a much greater capacity than normal for cooperation (eg ants), and is strongly [I]inversely [/I]related to the tendency towards intra-group violence. Among humans it seems to have started with the first agricultural populations, and to be connected to an increased ability to live together in close proximity. [/QUOTE]

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